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Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology

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The Role of High School in the Social Organization of Large Universities

I'm thinking about the conversation I just had with Allison Gopnik about explore exploit trade offs or in like childhood development and how patterns of behavior change. Mathematically you can do it. It's just a matter of your suspending reality a little bit. But mathematicians spend, suspend reality all the time. We'll see if this is really all actually one question where you say because of the different rates of initial Facebook adoption at different institutions, the single point in time represented by the data might usefully describe different stages in the formation of an online social network.

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